Photo: iStock. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe IT’S so easy to become inured to horror that sometimes the numbers need repeating.
Six million Jews – that’s half a million more than the entire modern-day population of Scotland – were systematically wiped out in the Nazis’ attempt to eliminate them from Europe.
Millions more were persecuted and killed because they were disabled, gay, Gypsies, Slavs, black, Jehovah’s Witnesses or political opponents of the Nazis.